6 ways to STOP translating in your head & THINK in another language! |

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Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy

大家好，歡迎回到English with Lucy

I probably look a little bit different today and that it's

我今天可能看起來有點不一樣

because I think I live in the hottest flat in England

那是因為我認為我住在英國最熱的公寓

or at least in Cambridge

或至少在劍橋。

Oh my God

哦，我的天啊。

right, so it's around 27, 28 degrees outside which for England is really really hot

對，所以現在外面大概有27,28度

對於英國來說 真的 真的很熱

但在這公寓內 就像一個該死的熱帶雨林

but inside my flat it's like a damn rain forest

it's humid muggy

非常潮濕 悶熱 這是一個很好的詞

that's a really good word

muggy is when it's like heavy hot sticky air

Muggy(悶熱)就是有很沉重,熱,黏黏的空氣 濕度

humidity

and I have a whole wall of windows which is great

我有整整一面牆都是窗戶

這很棒

because it lets in a lot of light

因為它可以讓光線進來

but it also

但它導致我公寓裡的溫室效應

contributes to a green house effect in my flat and so I'm actually boiling

所以我現在就像是在沸騰一樣超熱

so

所以，我不能讓自己綁好我的頭髮

I couldn't bring myself to do my hair

因為它就是會

cause it was just like put it in and then it would fall out again

我綁好之後 它會再次散開

and also no turtle necks today

今天也沒有領毛衣

got my Coca Cola t-shirt instead

反之 我拿到我的可口可樂T恤衫

which is not sponsored

這不是贊助

wish it was sponsored, imagine having Coca Cola sponsoring you, awesome

真希望它是贊助的

想像一下可口可樂贊助你 太讚了

so today is a really really really important video

所以今天，這是一個非 非常 非常重要的影片

Today I'm going to give you some advice on how to stop translating

今天，我要給你一些建議

關於如何停止翻譯成你的母語

into your native language

Because a lot of people have this problem

因為很多人都有這樣的問題

I've asked lots of English learners and learners of other languages

我問過很多英語學習者

和其他語言的學習者

and they say: "I would be able to speak so much more fluently if I could stop translating"

他們說

“我能說得更流暢

“如果我能停止翻譯。”

now, most of you probably already knew this

現在，大多數人可能已經知道這一點

if you are new to this channel then I speak fluent Spanish

如果你是新來到這個頻道

那麼我可以講一口流利的西班牙語

and I'm actively learning Italian

而且我正積極地在學義大利語

and I remember at the beginning of my Spanish learning journey

我記得在一開始

我的西班牙語學習之旅

I really find it hard not to translate

我真的覺得很難不去翻譯

and translating between English and Spanish can be really really difficult

在英語和西班牙語之間轉換

真的 真的很困難 很惱人

and annoying

because the word other is so different

因為字詞的順序很不同

I'm now learning Italian actively

現在我正在積極地學習義大利語

而我計畫要這樣做

and I'm managing to do so without translating into Spanish or English

不去翻譯成西班牙語或英語

So

所以，以我自己身為一個語言學習者的經驗

Speaking from my own experience as a language learner

and speaking from my experience as an English language teacher

還有身為一個英語老師的經驗

I'm going to give you some advice and hopefully

我將給你一些建議

並希望能幫助你克服 這個巨大的 巨大的障礙

help you get over this massive massive problem

that it's preventing you from improving

這個障礙阻止了你進步

Firstly, before we get started I'd just like to thank the sponsor of today's video

首先，在我們開始之前，

我想感謝今天的贊助商

Lingoda。

Lingoda

This is a company I've been working with for a while

我有一段時間在這家公司工作

I really really belive in what they have on offer

我非常 非常相信 他們所提供的東西

They are an online language academy

他們是一個在線語言學院

They teach English, French, Spanish and German

他們教英語 法語，西班牙和德語

and you sign up on a monthly basis

你按月註冊

and you get a combination of group and private lessons

你會得到一個群體跟個人的課程組合

taught by a video chat

通過視頻聊天授課

They have really really great materials

他們有非常 非常棒的教材

taught to you and delivered to you by real native qualifed teachers

教給你並傳授給你

通過真的被認證的母語教師

and if you look at the prices it's actually very very reasonable

如果你查看一下價格

它真的非常 非常合理

it's often much more affordable to study with Lingoda than it is to go to a like in person language school

使用Lingoda學習絕對是比

去一個面對面語言學校 更負擔得起

they've given me a discount for you

他們給了我一個折扣 可以給你們

you can get 50 euros or dollars off of your first month subscription at Lingoda

你能拿到50歐元或美元

當你訂閱Lingoda的第一個月

by clicking on the link in the description box

通過點擊在描述欄的連結

並使用折扣代碼ENGLUCY6,ENGLUCY6.

and using the discount code ENGLUCY6

ENGLUCY6

All the information is down there

所有的訊息都在下面

Right,

好的,讓我們開始影片

Right,

Let's get started with the video

我的天啊,太熱了吧

Oh my God

IT. IS. SO. HOT

I bet all of you are in your country

我敢打賭 你們都在你們的國家

Actually, let's do something fun tell me where you live and

讓我們來做些有趣的

告訴我你住在哪裡

what temperature is where you are right now cause I bet something of you are in like 40 degree heat

你現在所在的地方溫度是幾度

因為我敢打賭你們當中的一些 應該有像是在40度高溫中的

I know my friends in Seville are really suffering with the heat and I'm here with 27 degrees

我知道我在塞維利亞的朋友正受苦於

這種熱度

而我在這裡 27度 快熱死了

DYING!

I'm very sensitive

我非常敏感的

Okay so I've been thinking about this question for a long time

好了，我一直思考這個問題

想了很長時間

and I have actually made some notes on my phone

其實 我曾在我的手機上留下一些筆記

just because I want to get it in the right order for you

只是因為我想為你們排好正確的順序

so bear with me

所以，請多多包涵

So,

那麼，如何避免去翻譯成母語

How to avoid translating into your native language?

我可以給你的第一個技巧

Well, the first tip I can give you and this will not apply to everyone

不適用於每個人

就是不要在學習起初就開始翻譯

is don't start in the first place

if you are in like a beginner level of English

如果你大約在英語初學者的水平

有些翻譯是不可避免的

some translation is inevitable

I mean, you are going to do it

你會去翻譯

the way we learn in school is

我們在學校裡的學習方式是 amarillo(西班牙文)，yellow

Amarillo

Yellow

Naranja

Orange

naranja(西班牙文)，orange

We learn through translation

我們通過翻譯學習

然而，回想到當你還是嬰兒的時候

However

Think back to when you were a baby

How did you acquire your first ever language?

你是如何獲得你的第一個語言

Your mother tongue

你的母語？

您通過觀察,看,聽

You learn through observing, seeing, watching, hearing, smelling, tasting

嗅覺,味覺,看各種動作

watching actions

你沒有通過翻譯學習

you didn't learn through translation

因為你沒有任何基礎可以讓你翻譯

because you had nothing to base your translation on

because you had no mother tongue

因為你沒有母語

so babies are capable of learning a langue without any other language as reference

所以，嬰兒能學習一門語言

不用任何其它語言作為參考

然而，我們發現這非常困難

yet, we find it incredibly difficult

So, what you need to think is simplification

所以，你需要的就是簡化

Babies start small and over years and years and years they build their vocabulary

嬰兒從小處著手

然後一年又一年又一年

他們建立起自己的詞彙量

and you need to apply this to yourself as well

你也需要把這套用在你身上

is much more effective to learn vocabulary by observing and taking things in

學習單字會更有效率

藉由觀察和擷取東西進來

than it is to just you know looking something at a dictionary

比起只是在字典裡搜尋

and that brings me on to my next point

這剛好可以延伸至我的下一個重點

Oh my God! I'm so hot!

噢，我的天啊，我超熱的

and that brings me on to my next point which is

這剛好可以延伸至我的下一個重點

就是抓住你的雙語詞典

Grab your bilingual dictionary and throw it

並把它扔出窗外

out of the window! Don't do that, okay? It might land on somebody's head

不要真的這樣做,好嗎

它可能會砸在別人的頭上

Just place it to one side very carefully

只要小心地將它放在一邊

and then pick up your monolingual dictionary

然後拿起你的單語詞典

這是恰當的字嗎?

Is that the word for it?

And then

然後拿起字典

Pick up the dictionary in the language that you are learning

你正在學習的語言的字典

在大多數你們的狀況，應該是英語

In many of your cases it would be English

and start letting the language define itself

然後開始讓語言定義本身

因此，像名詞和動詞

so with words like nouns and verbs it can be a little difficult to understand

它會有點難以理解

but that's what you need to learn through observation

但這就是你需要通過觀察學習的地方

When you are looking at adjective, adverbs and other things like that

當你看著形容詞，副詞

和其他類似的東西

Try to understand the definition in that same language first

試著先用同一種語言去了解定義

Because what you are going to be doing is training yourself to think in the language that you are learning

因為你要做的是

訓練你自己用你正在學習的語言思考

Which brings me on to my third point

這剛好可以延伸至我的第三重點

Oh my God! What a beautifully well planned out video this is

噢，我的天啊，這是個多麼美麗

精心策劃出來的影片

所以我接下來的兩個重點

So my next two points are about thinking and speaking to yourself in that language

是關於思維和與自己對話

用該語言

Now I actually recommend that you start by speaking out loud to yourself in the other language

現在，其實我建議你開始

用其他語言對自己大聲說出來

I think I mentioned that in a video about conversation, improving your conversation and communication

我想我有提到 在一個關於溝通的影片

使你的談話與溝通進步

if you are interested in that then you can watch that video just up there

如果你有興趣

你可以觀看那部影片在上面那裡

However speaking to yourself in the other language is a really really key factor

然而，用其他語言與自己對話

是個非常 非常很關鍵的因素

in learning to think in the language

對於學習去用那語言思考

So,

舉西班牙文當例子 我在開車

For example with Spanish I'll be driving

我會形容某些動作

and I'll describe the movements that I'm going to be making with the car

我會在車上進行的

So I'll be like

我會像(西班牙文)

'Conduciendo, conduciendo, voy a girar a la derecha...

CABRÓN QUE TE ARRANCO LA CABEZA, GILIPO-anyway

總之 那是我會做的

That it's what I do

or I'll be pottering around my kitchen, cooking and talking to myself about what I'm doing

或者我悠閒地在我的廚房

烹飪和對自己說

我在做什麼

and

你會開始注意到自己的錯誤

you will start to notice your own errors, specially when you hear yourself speaking out loud

尤其是當你聽到自己大聲說出來

Once you are comfortable speaking out loud to yourself in private in that additional language

一旦你對於對自己講得很大聲感到自在

在私下 用那個語言

前進和後開始思考

Move on to starting to think

現在 我覺得說話應該先於思考

Now, I think speaking should come before thinking

But that's just my opinion, everybody learns in different ways

不過這只是我的看法

每個人學習的方式不同

I personally think it's easier to spot errors and get comfortable when you are speaking out loud

我個人認為這更容易去發現錯誤

還有變得自在 當你說得大聲

Now, the speaking out loud, we should do in private

大聲說出來

你應該會在私下做

但思考

but the thinking I want you to do it everywhere

我希望你能到處做

on the bus, seeing what goes past

在公共汽車上 看到任何經過的事物

它可以牽涉我做的這個影片

it can relate to the video I made on how to learn and remember vocabulary which you can watch up here

如何去學習和記憶詞彙

你可以在這裡觀看

it's a useful method where you observe everything around you check if you see if you know it in your own chosen language

這是一個有用的方法

你觀察你周圍的一切

然後你檢視看看你是否知道 如何用你想學的語言去表達這些事物

the full explanation it's in the video and some people have found that really really useful

完整的解釋在這個影片

有的人發現這真的非常 非常有用

I know I found it useful

我也覺得很有用

see if you can apply using a monolingual dictionary to that video

看看你是否可以應用單語字典

在那部影片

think I recommend using a bilingual one, see if you can do it with an English dictionary

我建議使用雙語的

看看你是否可以用一本英語詞典去做到

yeah, so by thinking in English and I'm talking about

所以用英文思考

我在說關於描述人

you know describing people, if you see someone walking think to yourself

如果你看到有人在走路

心裡暗想 這個人在走路

"That man is walking" "He is walking down the street"

他正走在街上

或者只是通過你身邊

or just go in through your motions

"I'm getting off the bus" "I'm going to go to the shops"

我正從公車下來

我打算去商店

in your head

在你腦海裡

you are just starting to immerse yourself in the language

你正開始沉浸自己在那個語言裡

Ah! That beautiful word! Immerse

那美麗的詞語 沉浸

to immerse yourself

沉浸你自己

讓我可以帶出第五個重點

Brings me on to point number five which is

就是沉浸

immersion

而這實際上是我最喜歡的字之一

and that's actually one of my favorite words

I know I have a lot of favorite words but

我知道我有很多的最喜歡的字

但沉浸 沉浸 .... 這字真的很棒

immersion

immersion

mmm

that's nice, that's a nice word

這是一個好字

So immersion is something that you should be doing throughout your learning experience

所以沉浸是你應該要做的

在整個學習過程中

and it's something that you can do whilst multitasking

這是你可以在處理多重事物時做的

which is one of my favorite things

這是我最喜歡的事情之一

So, when I'm doing something that doesn't require a hundred percent concentration

所以，當我在做什麼的時候

當不需要100％專注力時

像烹飪或清潔

Like cooking or cleaning

I always have something on in the background

我總是會放一些背景聲音

Cleaning, cooking, washing the car, gardening, whatever

清潔，烹飪，洗滌汽車，園藝等等

whatever any task that allows you to listen to something else at the same time as doing something else

任何事情 可以讓你去聽別的聲音

在同時又可以做事情

Have something on in that language in the background

用那個語言的聲音當作背景音樂

I know I'm saying it as if it's revolutionary but really don't forget to do it

我知道我說得彷彿是一場革命

不過說真的，不要忘了做

I know you can waste so much time and miss out on so much learning

我知道你會浪費很多時間

而且耽誤了許多學習

By, by having it on in the background and not even listening you will be getting used to pronunciation and accents

通過播放背景音樂

即使不去認真聽

你會逐漸習慣發音和口音

by listening and concentrating on what they are saying you will be familiarizing yourself with certain grammar

並通過傾聽和集中在他們在說的話

你會讓自己熟悉

某些語法 字詞

different vocabulary but also you will notice where you are lacking

不同的詞彙

而且，你會發現你所缺乏的地方

So, if you listen to a radio program about

所以，如果你在聽一個廣播節目是有關

我總是說攝影

我能說什麼？

so if you listen to a radio program about politics for example

例如，你在聽一個廣播節目是有關政治的

我最後一個重點是持續每一天

My last point is make it daily

Focus on frequency and consistency

專注於頻繁和持續

Okay, I always say to my students that twenty minutes a day of high quality

我總是告訴我的學生

每天20分鐘的高度專注

Not even studying, just language acquisition

即使不學習

只是獲取語言

獲取語言

我有時候自己也很驚訝

I sometimes surprise myself with the words that come out of my mouth

我口中會說出來這些字

每天20分鐘的高度專注英文時間

Twenty minutes a day of high quality English time

There we are, that sounds more like something Lucy would say

這聽起來比較像是Lucy會說的東西了

it's much much much more valuable

是非常 非常 非常有價值的

比起只在一天內花140分鐘

than a hundred and forty minutes all in one day

So,

因此，讓沉浸融入每一天

Make the general immersion and the thinking and the speaking to yourself

思考跟與自己對話

something that you do throughout your day, make it part of your routine

這是你可以在每天做的事

讓它成為你行程的一部分

Make it become automatic to you

讓它變得自然而然

You know I sometimes now go for an hour thinking in Spanish

我現在有時候會花一個小時用西班牙語思考

or you know thinking out loud in my head in Spanish and then I realize and I go

在我腦中大聲地用西班牙語思考

然後我意識到

God!

“我的天啊，我一直都在講西班牙文“

You know, I just said something, I've just been speaking Spanish the whole time

and it is because I do it so often it becomes automatic

而這是因為我常常做 所以它變得很自然

Then

然後 微微調整

the little tweaks and the little kind of self-help part that you are doing at the end

和需要自助的一小部分

你最後要做的

which is

就是找單字的定義

you know, searching definitions for words

working on the grammar that you've identified that you are lacking in

運用你會的語法

你缺乏的

or attempting to expand your vocabulary

或試圖擴大詞彙量

that should be short and should be daily

它花的時間很短 應該每日都要去做

Right guys, as always I want to know your opinions

好的，一如既往

我想知道你們的意見

你們都很聰明絕頂

you guys are a bunch of extremely intelligent minds and

I love, I love hearing your recommendations

我喜歡聽你們的建議

and I apply them to my daily life as well

我也會把它們應用到我的日常生活

所以我很想知道可以幫助你的東西

So, I'd love to know something that helped you stop translating into your native language

停止翻譯成你的母語

I'm sure you've got lots to share

我敢肯定 你們有很多想分享

In my other video where I asked you how many languages you speak

在我的其他影片裡，我曾問你

你可以說多少種語言

Some of you speak like seven languages which is unbelievable

有些人甚至會講七種語言

真是令人難以置信

and really awesome really impressive

真的很棒 很令人印象深刻

很榮幸有一群像你們一樣的學生

honored to have a group of students like you guys

Yes, so please share your recommendations and your experience

請分享你們的建議

跟經驗 在下面留言

In the comments below and also constructive criticism it's completely welcome

而且，歡迎建設性的批評

So if you don't agree with something I say, say it

所以，如果你不同意我說的一些地方

說出來，用好的方式去說出來

say it in a nice way, because I like everyone to be respectful here but

因為我希望大家都可以尊重這個空間

我不是英語的女神

I'm not the goddess of English

what I say doesn't go

我說的不一定都是對的

but I really do hope that I helped you

但我真的希望我可以幫助到你們

and that's it for the video today

這就是今天的影片

Don't forget to check out Lingoda and see if it's for you

不要忘記去查看Lingoda

看看它是否適合你

The link is in the description box with my code ENGLUCY6

連結在描述欄

還有我的代碼ENGLUCY6

and don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media

不要忘了聯絡我

用我的社交媒體

I've got my Facebook, my Instagram and my Twitter

我有Facebook Instagram Twitter

I will see you soon for another lesson

很快地 下一堂課再見

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